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Patch "serial: 8250: don't bind to SMSC IrCC IR port" has been added to the 3.14-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

serial: 8250: don't bind to SMSC IrCC IR port

to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:

     serial-8250-don-t-bind-to-smsc-ircc-ir-port.patch

and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

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From ffa34de03bcfbfa88d8352942bc238bb48e94e2d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: "Maciej S. Szmigiero" <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2015 23:11:52 +0200
Subject: serial: 8250: don't bind to SMSC IrCC IR port

From: "Maciej S. Szmigiero" <[email protected]>

commit ffa34de03bcfbfa88d8352942bc238bb48e94e2d upstream.

SMSC IrCC SIR/FIR port should not be bound to by (legacy) serial driver so its own driver (smsc-ircc2) can bind to it.

---
 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pnp.c |    5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pnp.c +5 -0
@@ -364,6 +364,11 @@ static const struct pnp_device_id pnp_de
 	/* Winbond CIR port, should not be probed. We should keep track
 	   of it to prevent the legacy serial driver from probing it */
 	{	"WEC1022",		CIR_PORT	},
+	/*
+	 * SMSC IrCC SIR/FIR port, should not be probed by serial driver
+	 * as well so its own driver can bind to it.
+	 */
+	{	"SMCF010",		CIR_PORT	},
 	{	"",			0	}
 };
 

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.14/serial-8250-don-t-bind-to-smsc-ircc-ir-port.patch